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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:20:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      andrewr  <andrewr@slack.net>
To:        Enkhyl <enkhyl@hayseed.net>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Hardening
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.980910111844.1652A-100000@brooklyn.slack.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809091709270.7959-100000@hillbilly.hayseed.net>

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On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Enkhyl wrote:

> Back when the popper buffer overflow bug sprang forth it was suggested
> that it might be a good idea to go through the OpenBSD change logs and
> evaluate security-related fixes for inclusion in FreeBSD. Is there anyone
> actively working on this? If there is a project organized around this, I'm
> willing to help out with the endeavor. Otherwise, I'm willing to embark on
> this endeavor and make a project out of it.

This kind of died due to lack of interest.  As I was told by jkh, if one
is interested enough in this, just start up a mailing list (not from
FreeBSD.org) and a team of workers and get to it.  Soon, if all goes well,
it would be incorporated into the actual project.  Good luck.

Andrew

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> Comments?
> 
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